EconLit

Stanford users have access to the the Web version of EconLit via
EBSCO.

EconLit is the single most important indexing and abstracting service
for Economics and related fields. It is compiled from the Journal
of Economic Literature and the Index of Economic Articles, which
are produced by the American Economic Association. EconLit provides
citations and selected abstracts for articles in more than 600 journals,
as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings,
etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and the Cambridge University
Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. Coverage begins
with January 1969, with abstracts for selected records beginning
in 1987. Book reviews are included beginning in 1993.

Additional information about Econlit (but no access to the database
itself) is available at the EconLit
Home Page.

AGRICOLA, Dissertation Abstracts, PAIS International

These indexes are all available via the Web to Stanford users
through the same OCLC FirstSearch service as EconLit.

AGRICOLA indexes and abstracts worldwide journal, book, and other literature
on agriculture and related topics, including agricultural economics.
It is produced by the National Agricultural Library and is the online
equivalent of the printed Bibliography of Agriculture.

Dissertation
Abstracts provides bibliographic information and abstracts for
Ph.D. Dissertations from U.S. and Canadian Universities. For additional
information about locating dissertations completed at Stanford and
at other universities, please see the Dissertations
and Theses page.

PAIS covers
journal articles, books, and government publications on public and
social policy literature in the fields of economics, business, political
science, international relations, and related fields.

SSCI provides interdisciplinary coverage of journals in the social
sciences, including economics. Access is available by author, by
key words in titles, and by cited reference (in the Citation Index).
SSCI is the only index in the social sciences providing citation
searching, whereby a user can take a known item (article, book,
dissertation, etc.) and locate later journal articles that cite
to the original known item.

Guides to Web Resources in Economics

Professor Barnett of Washington University provides one of the
most useful guides available. His selections encompass the most
important resources, and the addition of ratings helps to lead users
to the most useful sites.

WebEc is a "classification effort to improve the availability of
free information in economics on the WWW." It categorizes and describes
materials that "could be of interest to mainly academic economists."
The original site is from the Dept. of Economics at the University
of Helsinki, with several mirror sites available. The umbrella Web
site for WebEc is NetEc,
"a volunteer effort to improve the communications of research in
Economics via electronic media."

IDEAS is run by Christian Zimmermann in the Department of Economics at
the University of Connecticut and is the largest bibliographic database
dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet.

The JSTOR project provides browsing, searching, and printing of
the full text of selected key journals in economics and several
other disciplines. For most journals emphasis is on complete coverage
of back sets, but the most recent years are not included. Journals
include: American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Economic
Perspectives, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of
Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics.

ABI/Inform provides indexing of business, finance, management and
related journals from 1971 forward. For recent years it also provides
direct links to the full text of selected articles.

Wall Street Journal is available through the same UMI's
ProQuest Direct service. Full text of the newspaper is provided
beginning with January 1995 and continuing to the current day's
issue. For browsing and reading WSJ only, use the Search for Publication
button on the first page.

Alphabetical lists of economics journals, with links to information
about each title and various publishers' search capabilities, when
available. In a few instances, the full text of articles may be
provided.

NBER Working Papers and reprints can be searched by author, title,
abstract key words and by Working Paper number. Since Stanford has
a subscription to the paper version of the Working Papers, Stanford
users can download the full text of Papers at no additional charge.
(Note that some pages at this site may link only to an abstract
when in fact full text is also available. Try the Working Papers
Search function for links to full text.) The paper copies of the
Working Papers are found in Green Library, call number H 62.5 .U5
N35. Stanford's online public catalogs, Socrates and Socrates II,
in many cases do not provide cataloging for individual working papers,
so searching the NBER Web site provides useful added access.

Includes information and membership directories for the Business
History Conference, the Cliometric Society, the Economic History
Association, the International Economic History Association, the
History of Economics Society, and the Economic History Society of
Australia and New Zealand. Also provides links to selected data
archives and files, as well as to the Abstracts in Economic History.

The NBER Web site provides information about the research organization
and its activities. Special features include Working Papers abstracts
and a directory of research associates and fellows, both searchable
by key words and names.

Guides to Data on the Web

ICPSR (Inter-university
Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Stanford is a member of ICPSR. Data available from ICPSR is frequently
already owned by Stanford (use the Socrates Online Catalog as a
first check) and made available through the Social Sciences Data
Service. ICPSR data sets not already owned by Stanford can be acquired
for Stanford users by SSDS from thee ICPSR Web site offers extensive,
searchable information on ICPSR data sets. For more information,
contact the Social Sciences Data Service or Ron Nakao at ronbo@stanford.edu

IPUMS combines into a single database individual level samples
of the U.S. population drawn from various censuses between 1850
and 1990. IPUMS strives to assign uniform codes to variables across
all years to simplify comparisons between different censuses. It
is a project of the Social History Research Laboratory at the University
of Minnesota. Registration is required before data extraction is
permitted.

PSID is a longitudinal survey done since 1968 at the Survey Research
Center, University of Michigan. It emphasizes economic and demographic
data from a sample of U.S. individuals and families. (Check also
in Socrates for PSID data tapes distributed by ICPSR and available
at Stanford through the Academic Data Service).

DataFerrett is a data mining tool that accesses data stored in
TheDataWeb through the internet. DataFerrett can be installed as
an application on your desktop or use a java applet with an internet
browser.

CPS is the primary source for information on U.S. labor force characteristics.
A monthly survey of some 50,000 households is conducted by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census. This site includes
entry into Data
Ferret, which llows for retrieving tables and extracting data
from the Annual Demographic Survey (March CPS) as well as other
features.

For enhanced data extraction from the Current Population Surveys
in a non-Web environment, the CPS Utilities CD-ROMs from Unicon are available on the
Data Extraction Station in Jonsson Government Documents. As
of February 1998, the March (Annual Demographic File), October (School
Enrollment) and Outgoing Rotations (Earnings) files are available
in this format.

TRAC is a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization
associated with Syracuse University. TRAC's data on the Internal
Revenue Service, revised in April 1997, was deemed the "most extensive
collection of IRS data ever assembled outside of the agency." Access
to IRS information requires registration but is free.

The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national
income accounts converted to international prices for 168 countries
for some or all of the years 1950-2000. The European Union or the
OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates
for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates
for most PWT countries at the GDP level.

This data collection is a compilation of demographic and socio-economic
data created in the US Census Bureau's International Programs Center.
This site offers two features: 1) selected demographic data by country
can be directly accessed, or 2) the entire contents of the International
Data Base can be retrieved from this site to your computer. The
program requires 40 MB of hard disk storage and takes about 2 hours
to transfer via FTP. It comes with menu driven software allowing
the user to customize the information search and output